{GAYLEEN FROESE} IS SASKATCHEWAN'S BEST-KEPT SECRET.  A LISTENER RECOMMENDED HER TO US, AND WE'RE CERTAINLY GLAD HE DID.
   --NORA YOUNG, DEFINITELY NOT THE OPERA

 FROESE CERTAINLY HAS TALENT AND POTENTIAL
            --CHART MAGAZINE

OBITUARY HAS AN ODDLY TIMELESS        {OBITUARY} DEFIES GEOGRAPHICAL
QUALITY ... IT DRIVES ITSELF ALONG      ClASSIFICATION AND SIMPLY STANDS
UNDER ITS OWN POWER WITHOUT SO    AS A DOCUMENT OF A UNIQUE VOICE...
MUCH AS A NOD TO WHATEVER              TheWELLSPRING OF AN IMAGINATION
FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH MAY BE IN        THAT REVEALS ITSELF IN FRAGMENTS
VOGUE.  FROESE ... HAS PRODUCED A      OF THOUGHTS ... NEVER QUITE
STARK, ENIGMATIC, ALMOST ELEGIAC      PUTTING A FINGER ON WHAT LIES AT
RECORD THAT BECOMES MORE                THE CENTRE, NEVER MAKING IT EASY.
APPEALING WITH EACH LISTEN.  HER         {FROESE} CREATES A CONSISTENTLY
PLAYING HAS A NIMBLE, CASCADING,         MELANCHOLY MOOD WITH
QUIETLY TURBULENT FEEL.  THERE'S         UNDERCURRENTS OF DANGER,
A SUBTLE AND EERIE LUMINESCENCE         RESIGNATION, PROTEST, ALL MUCH
TO OBITUARY; IT EVOKES MOODS AND      EASIER TO EXPERIENCE THAN
SENSATIONS EASILY AND WITHOUT           TO DESCRIBE.
MANIPULATION.  IT'S THE KIND OF CD                          -- MIKE SPINDLOE,
THAT SHOULD GAIN FROESE A LOYAL                    SASKATCHEWAN ORIGINAL
FOLLOWING ... AND THE FANS SHE GETS                  MUSIC ASSOCIATION
NOW WON'T BE ASHAMED TO ADMIT, IN
FIVE YEAR'S TIME, THAT THEY OWN THIS
RECORD.
         --RANDY KING, REGINA FREE PRESS

{OBITUARY} IS AN UNUSUAL ALBUM WHICH DARES YOU TO LISTEN TO THE LYRICS.  IT WILL PROBABLY DEFY MOST WHO TRY TO CLASSIFY IT.
     --THE SESSION, SRIA
 

 FROESE'S HONESTY IN RECORDING IS REFLECTED IN HER MUSIC.
   --SASKATOON STAR PHOENIX
 

...HER SONGS RESONATE WITH TRUTH.
   --THE EYEOPENER, RYERSON UNIVERSITY

 Singer/pianist Froese has proven once again that you don't need a big record contract and thousands of dollars to make a wonderful album.  Recorded straight to DAT at an Anglican church in her hometown of Saskatoon, the 13 dark little songs that make up the Obituary have a quiet urgency and maturity.  From the sparse clockings of "Dalhousie Str. Waltz" to her heart-breaking condition of R.E.M.'s "Fall On Me," the album flows and floats effortlessly along in ways that those big-name over-the-top piano women just can't.  Stirring shadowplay from a huge talent.
      --Erin Hawkins, Eye Weekly
 

    Obituary is filled with eeire themes and proof her refreshing talent isn't ready to die any time soon.
        --Now Magazine, Toronto